Runner-up · Industrial software · Port operations
YILPORT’s crane optimizer lifted yard performance 21%.
YILPORT says crane moves per hour at its Gebze container terminal increased 21% within three months after it deployed Kaleris RTG Optimization across 31 rubber-tired gantry cranes. The software assigns work dynamically to reduce unproductive travel and idle time.
The deployment sits on YILPORT’s existing N4 terminal operating system and continuously rebalances crane assignments as yard conditions change. That makes the result an operating-software intervention inside a live terminal rather than a simulation or equipment order.
Kaleris and YILPORT disclosed a three-month result and plan to expand the software to three European terminals, but did not publish the comparison baseline, container volume, peak-versus-average result or third-party verification. The 21% figure is therefore strong deployment evidence whose durability and transferability still need testing.
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What changed
YILPORT had already standardized parts of its terminal software stack. What changed on September 16 is a quantified operating result from Gebze: 21% higher yard performance after RTG optimization was applied to 31 cranes.
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Why it matters
Container terminals cannot expand throughput simply by buying more cranes or land. Software that raises productive moves from an installed fleet can improve vessel turnaround, reduce rehandles and defer capital spending. Gebze’s 21% result is significant because it comes from a live 31-crane operation, where weather, yard congestion and changing vessel plans complicate optimization. The missing baseline matters: terminals need comparable definitions of moves, utilization and delay before copying the number into a business case. If the gain holds across seasons and transfers to other YILPORT sites, it would strengthen the case for optimization software as a measurable port-capacity investment.
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What to watch
Watch sustained moves per crane-hour, rehandle rates, truck turn time and vessel productivity over a disclosed baseline period. Replication across YILPORT’s other terminals would be stronger evidence than another product announcement.
Why it was a runner-up
The measured operating gain is unusually concrete, but it is a single-terminal vendor-and-customer result with no independent audit or disclosed baseline period.
Impact: 88/100 · Confidence: 82/100
Kaleris identifies the terminal, installed crane fleet, software layer and measured improvement; YILPORT is quoted as the operating customer. Confidence is limited by the absence of an independent audit, baseline window and underlying move data.
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